InfoPrint Server for IBM i

Go beyond 'print and distribute.' Go to the next level of automation to manage and present business information electronically and reduce hardcopy costs.
Receive more value from your IBM i investment. Extend core IBM i output capabilities that help enable you to re-engineer business processes to improve service levels, decrease transaction costs, reduce paper flow and enhance competitive advantage with speed and flexibility.

With InfoPrint Server, you can transform any standard IBM i output format and produce electronic output in Advanced Function Presentation (AFP™) or PDF. This capability allows you to manage and distribute information via e-mail, Web or local printing.

Migration to electronic output can reduce the time, costs and waste associated with preprinted hardcopy forms. And, you gain IBM i management of network output. InfoPrint Server provides transforms for PCL, PostScript®, GIF, TIFF, JPEG and PDF data into AFP so you can bring these documents into the IBM i for efficient and cost-effective handling.

Highlights

Enables profiling of document/report recipients and delivers their output as they need it (hardcopy, e-mail, Web, and so on) using 'intelligent routing' functionality.

Offers exceptional flexibility and functionality in PDF and e-mail so you can use most popular mail servers, control e-mail elements like subject text, body text and so on, and attach most file types.

Provides access to InfoPrint Server functions through IBM i Navigator and Access for Web.

Indexes IBM i print files for use with Web browsers and archival systems.

Converts ASCII print files to IBM i format (AFP) in order to manage enterprise-wide printing on IBM i printers.

Converts Web image formats such as JPEG, TIFF and GIF to IBM i image format.

Enhancements

Intelligent Routing – This functionality enables dynamic profiling of customers and end users matched with the desired mode of business communications for each recipient (print, fax, e-mail, Web).

User application interface – This new end-user communications definition interface for InfoPrint Server, which is in addition to the programmed interface, can simplify document profile and delivery deployments.

File naming and location – Users of InfoPrint Server now have enhanced control over PDF filenames and integrated file system (IFS) locations, easing deployment and improving usability.

PDF encryption – Encryption of document and report data (along with password protection) helps broaden the scope of output that can be distributed electronically.

File size – Enhancements have been made in PDF processing that help significantly reduce average PDF file size.

2D barcode – New two-dimensional bar codes are now supported in PDF. Bar codes are UPS Maxicode, PDF417, and Datamatrix.

Full-color documents – Full-process color documents can now be created on IBM System i and flow to PDF files. Full-color image is supported in two methods—the standard System i highly-compressed color image standard (the IOCA Function Set 45 specification) and direct import of standard Web image formats (JPEG, TIFF, PDF).

Web-IFS-Image Import – V5R3 supports the direct import of standard Web image formats in ASCII, such as JPEG, TIFF and PDF, into System i documents. These images are rendered in the PDF produced in InfoPrint Server.

Planet barcode – This new zip code variant is supported in PDF.

PDF orientation – Additional options now provide control over the orientation of a document or report in the viewer.

Note: Some of the above functions are available in V5R2 as a PTF update.

Evaluation

Explore InfoPrint Server with the standard 70-day evaluation

Explore InfoPrint Server with the standard 70-day evaluation

Re-engineer your output for e-business with Infoprint® Server for System i. Activate your 70-day evaluation today from the i5/OS® Version 5 release set of CDs.

Instructions – Use the standard i5/OS program product installation—GO License Program (GO LICPGM). The product ID for InfoPrint Server is 5722-IP1. Remember, if you are using V5R2 and System i Access for Web, you can use PDF functions immediately. If you are using V5R1, you can move a targeted spooled file to the recently configured PDF queue and PDF services will be invoked.

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